Getting around in London by tube

Ahh, The Tube. If you live in London and you don't have a chauffeur driven car, a wage that can pay for billions of taxis or an expense account as long as my arm, you're likely to find yourself clattering along on this thing at some point. It is the fasted and most efficient way to get around London. Most of the time. The tube runs a very comprehensive service throughout Central London, and then spiders out to the suburbs and even into neighbouring ...
...each recognised by their colour on the map. Currently, they are (and I hope I don't forget any...) Picadilly (Indigo) Northern (Black) Victoria (Blue) Central (Red) Jubilee (Silver) Bakerloo (Brown) District (Green) Circle (Yellow) Hammersmith & City (Pink) Metropolitan (Purple) East London (Orange) DLR (Blue/Green) Waterloo & City (Pale Aqua) The map, a simplified drawing of each route, shows each line and the stations on it. Stations ...

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...have as much chance of getting a chocolate bar from the platform vending machines OR as your change back as winning the Lotto. It isn’t advised to eat strong smelling foods on the tube, as you will stink the carriage out! Toilets: There are no underground toilets. Some of the bigger stations have toilets and most of them are clean due to you having to pay a small sum, say 20 pence to use the facilities. Accessibility: If you have accessibility ...
...to find out what stations will be easiest for you. The Jubilee line: If only all lines were like this: -clean and quick! There are glass panels down on the platforms to stop people throwing their selves on the track-sad but true. Reasons for delays: People throwing themselves on the tracks, leaves on the line, the ‘wrong kind of rain,’ strikes, snow, power cuts and derailments. Oh and animals on the line. There was a recent story of a dog escaping ...

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...and have a chance of getting on the next arriving train, the platform edge can quickly become dangerously close. Why do people have to push like that? Have they no sense at all? Having a position at the front doesn’t necessarily guarantee you a place on the next train though. Oh no. Whether or not you’ll actually get on it will depend largely upon where on the platform you’re positioned and whether or not the carriage doors will ...
...you’ll have little chance of getting a seat unless you do as the more experienced underground travellers do. Target a seat. Those reading are unlikely to be travelling just a few stops, and although they could have been travelling for ages already, they rarely make good targets. Study people’s faces. If they look bored, they’ve probably already been there a while so maybe they’ll be alighting soon? Mind you, people do get ...

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...you may ever see so getting drunk is not an option. Don’t be nervous though – millions of people travel on the Tube every day without any problems. ** There is a general etiquette to follow when travelling by Tube which makes life a little easier. When walking along corridors it is expected that passengers stick to the left-hand side – this ensures an even flow of traffic either way. When on escalators, you are requested to stick ...
...leg it past you on the left. Oh – and eating smelly food or putting your feet on the seats is a no-no as well! ** Enjoy the history and style of the Underground. Whilst it is essentially a form of transport some of the stations and lines in London are quite curious – the Docklands Light Railway is probably the line with the most to see. Many stations in the centre of London were constructed in Victorian days and you will see all sorts ...

LostWitness 04.08.2001 · Read full review
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...thing to a car is getting around London in a tube a.k.a The London Underground!! I usually travel around London in the tube or sometimes using the railway. Which ever one both services are absolutely great. OK, let me start the opinion. I do not want to talk ages about my life. --~What is the tube?~-- The tube is basically a system of transport which runs throughout the outskirts of London. The tube consists of trains which travel to most parts ...
...a "travel card" rather than getting a "single" or "return" ticket. The price are as follow: One day Travel card: Z1 & 2= £4. Z1,2,3, & 4= £4.30 Z1,2,3,4,5, & 6= £4.90 Z 2,3,4,5 & 6 = £3.50 The prices are based on adult tickets but the price of a child is always £2. (Z=Zones) Although if you are going to travel in a family the best thing is to get a "family travel card". The price is much more cheaper and the best thing children travel at 80p. ...

fromthedarkside 01.07.2001 (30.07.2001) · Read full review
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If you’re anything like me then you’ll have experienced the frightened rabbit situation when using the London underground, all hustle and bustle and too many people trying to get onto a tube train. I encountered frightened rabbit syndrome when I first travelled the London underground…alone. In the past I’d always needed my hand to be held whilst I’d get lead from one platform to another by my tube-wise friend and I ...
...to follow. This was good enough for me and I did not want to learn how this complex looking network worked! Then I started my IT job which meant I had to grow up, let go of my friends apron strings and …gasp…travel the underground alone (strike of lightning). My first experience is a blur and I prefer not to remember it (or rather I cant remember that far back!), but it only really took 3 visits to London to get used to the underground, ...

Miss-D 06.06.2001 (08.08.2001) · Read full review
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...a means to an end, getting very grumpy when it doesn’t work. I just thought I’d put a few bits of trivia together, hopefully to make it all the more bearable, and explain why things are the way they are. London’s Underground lines can really be split into two main types (no, not the ones that work and the ones that don’t). Firstly you have what could be called genuine “tube” lines, the likes of the Piccadilly, ...
...common. a)A common diminutive size of train designed to shoe-horn into a 12’ diameter pipe, b)Their central London stations are all relatively deep level involving escalators or more rarely these days, lifts. These tunnels were created using “real” boring machinery with minimum disruption to the surface level. c)There is no route sharing, i.e. they don’t run on each other’s tracks, being dedicated to a specific route. ...

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The tube is a great way to get around London and is generally a safe place, but having been a regular tube user over the past few years I’ve picked up a few ways to make navigating the tube a bit easier and possibly a bit safer. Most importantly always carry your wallet or purse in front of you even when sitting on a tube train, e.g. in an inside front jacket pocket instead of in a bag. Keep your ticket separate from your wallet. If someone ...
...as well, and with the number of times you have to swipe your ticket you won’t be showing your wallet each time. Take plenty of change to buy tickets from ticket machines where possible (notes are accepted but only if there is enough change in the machine). If at a larger station e.g. Euston, buy your ticket from a ticket machine on a concourse. Once you’ve gone down the escalator to the trains the queues are always longer. A travelcard ...

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Everyone will of heard of the tube, even you Northerners of ciao. The tube network is one of the most popular and regular used services for access around London. As London is such as big community and the roads are always congested it makes sense to use the tube to avoid the congestion in the mornings. The tube is mainly used for people travelling to and from school or work during the week and for shoppers to the capital on the weekends. The ...
...London and if not directly you can change lines and get to where you want to go. The tube has been facing some problems over the last year or so though due to drivers wanting extra pay and some stikes have occured. The last few that were planned have been thankfully called off. On the tube you can buy all types of tickets for your journey and these can be brought from the counter or from a machine, which are at all stations. Each station has a ...

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...probably how they like it) but I use it several times a week. I keep a bundle of forms in the office, it only takes seconds to fill the form in and I am looking forward to getting £30 off my next travel card (as it stands at the moment). ...

charlie25 12.03.2001 · Read full review
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For more years than I can remember I have had to trek across London and as bad as the tube is its in general faster than the bus, even if you live on a direct route to your destination it still goes via every road in London to get to its destination. I bought property 7 years ago on the central line as it was the best line and the Northerm was the worst, hmmm...well things change - boy do they!! Now the central line is one of the worst. Anyway having ...
...or two things that might just make things a teensy bit more bearable, well they do for me!!! Best tip I could give is when buying a ticket. I have a monthly ticket and I don't know why but it used to nearly always run out on a Sunday and I'm sure you discovered for yourself that the queues on Monday stretch practically back to your house! For a while I thought I was being smart by buying my ticket in the evening when I returned home, however it always ...

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...were you.. Ways of getting in to and around London~~ Whenever I go to London I always go by tube, when I go in with my friends and when I go in with my parents. To me it's the only way to go, I hope this opinion explains why clearly. Going into London by car is not nice, the driver gets stressed with all the traffic and stressed with trying to find a car parking space. And when you do find a space you will be most likely horrified at how much ...
...London? Another alternative to getting around London is black cab. Well a cab will take you from A to B for a fortune and probably get stuck in traffic making the fare even hirer! But one thing you will be guaranteed is a friendly cabbie! With my parents we've got London cabs a few times and every time we've had a friendly and chatty driver. The final alternative - buses. Well if you get a travel card it includes unlimited travel on London buses ...

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...dreamy haze, you spot someone getting off the train, freeing up a seat. You manoeuvre slowly towards it, only for some hyperactive bastard boarding the train having spotted the seat from the outside to jump into it as though it were the front of the 'Get Britney's Virginity Here' queue. This is only half the problem, as then you meander around for three seconds looking like a walking advert for Red Nose Day and pretending that you didn't really want ...
...until the next stop. Where the process repeats itself all over again. Yes, I love these seatswoopers; I love them so much that I call them a very special and endearing name: "It's Too Early In The Morning For This You F**king Scum Of The Earth Bastards." Now, I realise that so far in this article I've sworn more than Shaun Ryder in a streetfight, so I shall not spend too much time on those aforementioned (bastard) dot (bastard) matrix (bastard) screens. ...

BennyRialto 06.12.2000 (17.08.2001) · Read full review
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...alighting at). But… all those getting off the train travel up the single person width footbridge… so those needing to get down it to the platform can’t. By the time the gran with the prosthetic leg manages to get onto the correct platform the train has already departed. I have unfortunately been involved in this little sequence of events many a time. Add rush hour, weekends, rude foreigners that don’t seem to realise that ...
...is exacerbated to a ridiculous level. Only yesterday 80 people were trapped on a tube train for 90 minutes that had some fault or another. Imagine the heat and smell in those crowded carriages for that length of time? Rats, over inflated ticket prices, general problems as outlined, football Saturdays, junkie tube users, pickpockets etc etc etc etc……….don’t do it. Oh I forgot… we all have to as other transport takes ...

tom_knowles 03.07.2001 (11.07.2001) · Read full review
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...I could be sure of getting home. And the NY system is cheaper too, not to mention cleaner (marginally). Okay. Enough wibbling. Here are my tips, as a lifelong Londoner, for getting the best out of the tube system if you're a casual visitor (if you're a resident, you know as much as I do already) 1: Buy a travel card. You only have to make two trips for it to start paying off, and it saves having to queue/suss ticket machines/find change every time ...
...all possible. Very handy for getting north/south. The most unreliable lines are the Northern (and be VERY careful which branch you get on - the CHaring Cross and Bank branches are completely different and getting the wrong one will be infuriating) and the Circle, which is always slow and fairly infrequent. The District is quite good, but not one for anyone with a deadline to meet, it potters along at its own speed and does some really complicated ...

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